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The Australian Coalition arrangement is set apart from coalitions elsewhere by its ongoing nature, even in opposition, and the fact that the parties go into elections with a common election platform.
AAP
September 5, 2013

Much has been made of the ‘unusual’ nature of the minority Labor government over the past three years and there has been a sense that Australia is better off without it; that we need a return to the stability…

Not all pursuits can have their worthiness calculated in dollars and cents.
epSos.de
September 5, 2013

I doubt anyone truly believes governments are infinitely resourced. Even the most rabid, single-issue monomaniac can appreciate that to add public money from bucket X, it must come from bucket Y. So it’s…

The economic costings from both parties rely on wildly optimistic PEFO figures.
AAP
August 30, 2013

The economic promises of both the Coalition and the ALP rely on two “big taxes”: the mining tax and the carbon tax. This week, the Coalition revealed what it believes it will save from abolishing them…

Research on work and family policies support an approach that responds to the intensive demands of early childhood, as well as birth.
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August 28, 2013

When the Labor government introduced a national paid parental leave (PPL) scheme on 1 January, 2011, it was late to the international party. The International Labour Organisation had been recommending…

There are two visions for the National Broadband Network, but what are the long-term costs?
Lukas Coch/AAP
August 27, 2013

Consumers know well that buying a cheaper product often costs more in the long term when the cheaper product has to be replaced. This is true of the Coalition’s vision for the National Broadband Network…

Election FactCheck is checking key claims in political advertisements. Here we look at the “Rudd’s record” ad from the Liberal Party. Kevin Rudd was borrowing $100 million every day. Now we have a $254…

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott during a visit to St Vincents Hospital in Sydney, on the day the Coalition released its health policy.
Alan Porritt/AAP
August 23, 2013

The Coalition’s Policy to Support Australia’s Health System is a cautious document, despite shadow health minister Peter Dutton’s promise of a “cracker of a health policy”. Tony Abbott set the scene at…

By now you’ll know the Coalition has dramatically under-budgeted its Direct Action plan on climate change by A$4 billion. On the Coalition’s current budget the plan will fail to meet Australia’s emissions…

Foxtel and the NBN … why all the noise of late?
Gaye Gerard/AAP
August 8, 2013

No-one would describe News Corp Australia’s view on the National Broadband Network (NBN) as rosy. But if it’s true the company has engaged in repeated attacks on the government because it “hates” its network…

The two proposals for Australia’s NBN offer two potential realities.
Lukas Coch/AAP
July 17, 2013

Broadband – in the shape of the National Broadband Network (NBN) – remains a key point of difference between Labor and the Coalition’s policies going into the federal election. Our politicians are not…

Australian manufacturing workers are feeling the heat of economic change.
July 15, 2013

In an attempt to pressure state leaders on schools funding reform, prime minister Julia Gillard revealed new data showing the difference her package would make at the national and state level. The June…

Tony Abbott’s budget reply was a considered economic strategy amid fiscally challenging times for Australia.
May 17, 2013

In last night’s budget reply, Tony Abbott crowed he will “put the house back in order” and that the “budget will be in better hands under a Coalition government than under Labor”. It was a very measured…

In his budget reply speech, Tony Abbott made the unpredicted announcement that he would maintain carbon tax compensation but still abolish the tax.
AAP/Alan Porritt
May 17, 2013

In his federal budget reply speech, opposition leader Tony Abbott announced that a putative coalition government would maintain the revised tax-free threshold and other associated carbon tax compensation…

Will the NBN be more “future-proof” under Labor or the Coalition?
Lukas Coch/AAP image
April 12, 2013

In yesterday’s Business Spectator, shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull defended the Coalition’s broadband plan, released on Tuesday, as a better alternative to Labor’s National Broadband Network…

The Coalition looks set to only tinker around the edges of higher education policy.
AAP Image/Alan Porritt
March 2, 2013

What should universities expect from a Coalition government if Tony Abbott wins the September election? In his address to the Universities Australia conference in Canberra, the signals were fairly reassuring…

When former leaders take the public stage, nostalgia hits for voters.
ABCTV
November 20, 2012

The former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson famously said a week is a long time in politics. If this is the case, then you have to wonder how long it will feel if the current Parliament runs it full…

The two major parties have taken different approaches to compensating households for the carbon tax.
Jonas B
July 2, 2012

The two main political parties agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to 5% below the 2000 level, or about a 20% reduction below business as usual. However, they propose very different policy…

The coalition needs to tread more lightly when it comes to Indonesia.
AAP Image/Alan Porritt
May 14, 2012

In his budget reply speech last week, opposition leader Tony Abbott said Indonesia was to be a “vital partner in Australia’s future”. He’s right, and for now, at the government-to-government level, Australia-Indonesia…